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HANGER FOR GHANDELIERS.

No. 252,919. Patented Jan. 31,1882.

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NETED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE W. WQODWARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HANGER FOR CHANDELlERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,919, dated January 31, 1882,

Application filed March 16, 1881.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown thatl, GEORGE WJWOODWARD,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, 5 haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers for Chandeliers, &c.,' of which the following is a specification.

lhe object of this invention is to provide a simple and effective means of securing extension-chandeliers in their hangers so as to prevent the chandelier from being lifted out of the hanger in the act ot'elevating the sem The nature of my invention consists in the employment of a pin passed through a diagonally-drilled hole in the stem of a suspensionhook, so as to form an upper bearing to arrest any upward movement of an extens1on-chan-' delierfrom its seat in the said hook while in the act ofraising the same.

Figure 1 represents a side view of a hunger for chandeliers, showing my improvement applied thereto. Fig.2 is a rear view of the same with the pin removed. v

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In the'case here presented the suspensionhook shown in the drawings has a hole, A, drilled diagonally through its stem in a straight line from its point of entrance to, or nearly to, 30 the point of the hook.

B is a pin, which is inserted through the hole to form a second bearing for the pin.

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A. The point of this pin preferably bears against the inner surface of the hook; but in some cases I continue the drilling'of the hole from the stem into the point of the hook, so as It will here be observed that when the pin is placed in position it will afford absolute security in preventing the chandelier from being lifted ofi' the hanger, which there is at the present time great danger of doing when moving the chandelier rapidly upward, or when attempting to raise the chandelier above a given height.

I am aware that chandelier-hooks have been made with the lower portion of the hook pivoted to the shank, so as to enable such lower portion to be swung backward to insert the eye or ring of a chandelier and llangdownward by its own gravity. Such devices I do notclaim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a chandelier suspension-hook having a hole, A, through its stem and a removable pin, 13, fitted therein acting as a positive stop to prevent the chandelier from being lifted off the hook, substantially as shown and described.

- GEO. NV. WOODWARD.

' vWitnesses:

CHARLES H. NAsH, JAMES H. HUNTER. 

